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About Sylvia

Sylvia M. Garrett lives with her mother in Los Angeles, where she attends an all-girls high school. When Sylvia was younger, her mother always encouraged her to ask questions and find the answers herself. That childhood curiosity inspired Sylvia to always seek knowledge and solutions, as she believes girls can be curious and capable explorers and experimenters, while being quintessentially female. Growing up, Sylvia had a red-headed accomplice, named Gracie, who was (and forever will be) her tree-climbing friend.

Highly interested in STEM and involved in a variety of volunteer activities, Sylvia aspires to be a neurosurgeon and innovator. She was a 2018 Dr. James Fann Fellow in Cardiothorasic Surgery Education at Stanford School of Medicine. Sylvia also holds United States Patent No. 9,517,948 for a solar-powered, portable, personal water filtration system. Sylvia has been a project volunteer for both the Sacred Valley Potable Water Service Project (Pilkobamba, Peru) and the Njoro Village Service Immersion Project (Tanzania, Africa). ​